Encounters

Several sightings of coyotes have been reported in Lombard, prompting authorities to issue some advice to anyone who spots the animals or wants to avoid them. The sightings included a report of a coyote sunning itself outside Madison School last week. It was gone by the time police arrived. The DuPage Forest Preserve District has released a list of suggestions to avoid close encounters with coyotes, which have been driven into neighborhoods by a loss of their habitat. ...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Russian spy plane flew dangerously close to an SAS passenger plane en route from Copenhagen to Rome earlier this year, a SAS spokeswoman said, confirming a report by Swedish television on Thursday. The incident took place over international waters between Denmark and Sweden in the Baltic sea on March 3, Swedish television reported. SAS spokeswoman Trine Kromann said the Russian military reconnaissance aircraft had come within approximately 90...

By Ryan Haggerty and Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune reporters | November 4, 2012

As Radcliffe Haughton's family struggled over how to pay final respects to a man who killed his wife and two other women before taking his own life, police in suburban Milwaukee have agreed to a review of their repeated encounters with him. Authorities in Brown Deer, Wis., just north of Milwaukee, responded to nearly 20 calls involving Haughton and his wife, Zina, since 2001, according to department records. At least seven calls to the home of the...

(Reuters) - Trying to avoid an awkward encounter with an ex? Fearful of an embarrassing meeting after an argument? New apps can help people avoid bumping into others and provide escape routes if they do. By logging on to Facebook and other social networking sites, users can choose people they do not want to see. "Everybody has somebody they want to avoid," said Udi Dagan, chief executive officer of Israel-based technology company Split....

Often times when we hear historical museum, our mind conjures up old, older, ancient; but the Du Page County Historical Museum is offering something brand new: a costume gallery presenting "Encounters with Elegance." Seven demure, off-white, curly haired mannequins bestow viewers with the "romantic idealism embraced by women" during a 40-year period from about 1869 to 1911. The corseted shapes are adorned with costumes from the museum's private collection and enticing and stunning.

An Itasca hotel ballroom is reserved for a meet and greet next weekend, but the event is shaping up to be a little different from the typical version with coffee, sweet rolls, fruit trays and small talk. This one will feature about 2,000 emotionally charged teen girls drawn there by cute boys who have become mega-celebrities in large part by making kooky, six-second video loops. The gathering is the outgrowth of a new twist in digital culture that has caught parents off...

The longest elevator ride David Goldberg ever took was in 1994, when he jumped on, pushed "door-close" and repeatedly hit the button for his floor because he was desperate to get to the bathroom. Then, the chairman of his company walked on, and time pretty much stood still. The ride "was about six months long," moans Goldberg, a 32-year-old information-technology consultant who confronted this little challenge when he worked for U.S. News and World Report. The chairman was Mortimer...

Feb 17 (Reuters) - An asteroid estimated to be the size of three football fields is set for its close-up on a live webcast as it whizzes by Earth on Monday, roughly a year after one exploded over Russia and injured 1,200 people. Slooh Space Camera plans to track the close approach of Asteroid 2000 EM26 as it races past the planet at approximately 27,000 miles per hour (43,000 km/h), starting at 9 p.m. EST (2 a.m. GMT, Feb. 18), the robotic telescope service said...

Specific images stand out forever in our individual cine-memories, and for me, the approach of the massive mothership over the ridge of Devil's Tower in Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" ((star)(star)(star)(star)) is one of the most magnificent. But there are plenty of other stirring moments in this 1977 film, which has been rightly heralded as one of the most impressive and important science-fiction movies ever.. At 7 p.m. Thursday, the Gene...

SOCHI, Russia -- Team USA goaltender Molly Schaus was minding her own business in the athlete's village in Sochi on Wednesday when she spotted a man "dressed in world leader attire. " Which makes sense, because it was Russian President Vladimir Putin who had entered surrounded by media while he toured the facilities for the Winter Games. "I was in the dining hall when he came in so I got to see him," Schaus said. "You're sitting in there and a throng of media comes...

BEAR!!!! That is the correct reaction upon seeing an 8-foot mama grizzly bear with two cubs as she shuffles toward you with murder in her eyes. Climb a tall tree. And then there is: Nice bear, I`m out of here. This is the more casual bear encounter in the wilderness, when the best advice is to stay as calm as possible and to back away as quietly as possible. Alaska is the bear capital of the world, home of titan bruins. They`re waking up now from their winter...

A U.S. Navy reservist told a Lake County judge Thursday that he had at least 20 sexual encounters with Rev. Lloyd R. Davis, the founder of the Waukegan-based Christian Fellowship Church on trial on sexual assault charges. Gerald Adams, of Montgomery, Ala., said he had sex with Davis and members of his church during the five months he was at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center near North Chicago. Adams was 18 years old when the alleged acts occurred in late 1989 and early 1990, he said in...

ON BOARD AIR FORCE ONE, Dec 10 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's encounter with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai at Nelson Mandela's memorial in South Africa was "just an exchange of greetings," a White House aide said on Tuesday. White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters aboard Air Force One during the return flight to the United States that Obama had not seen the venue as a place to do business...

The R. Kelly prosecution finished its case Monday with dramatic testimony from a woman who detailed three-way sexual encounters with the singer and the alleged victim depicted in the sex tape at the heart of the child pornography case. But the controversial witness didn't leave the stand before defense attorneys challenged her credibility by calling her a liar and asking her if she demanded $350,000 to change her story. Lisa Van Allen, 27, denied trying to extort money from Kelly, an ex-lover whom she...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A comet is heading for a close encounter with the sun later this month, and if it is not vaporized or torn apart, it should be visible to the naked eye in December. Comet ISON is expected to pass just about 621,000 miles (1 million km) from the sun's surface on November 28. Scientists are not sure how ISON will hold up. As it blasts around the sun, traveling at 234 miles per second (377 km per second) the comet will be heated to...

`This is the story of one man's attempt to deal with a shattering assault from the unknown." So began Whitley Strieber's 1987 book "Communion," an account of his extraordinary experiences with what may or may not have been aliens at his rustic upstate New York cabin on Dec. 26, 1985. "Communion" was a non-fiction bestseller for Strieber, who is also the author of such successful novels as "The Wolfen" and "The Hunger." "Communion" also was made into a 1989 movie starring Christopher Walken and...

We gave up on Dominick's not because their supermarkets weren't up-to-date, but because we didn't enjoy encounters with surly and indifferent employees. Being advised to "have a nice day" doesn't compensate. - Conrad Weisert, Chicago